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Faith, the Clave asked, demanded, left no room for anything but compliance. Faith as order, an imposed will crushing your own. Faith as obedience.

Knee shifts, rug scrapes, eyes blink. Magnus, there and gone and there again.

Faith with Magnus as trust. Trust that he will be there between one blink and the next, faith that anything they face they face together. Magnus’s hand on his chest, pressing him down into the bed sheets, sliding against him for the first time. Faith Magnus won’t break him. Trust that he can be vulnerable around him.

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Or, Alec discovers that the words he knew under the Clave have a different meaning when he's with Magnus. A sort of character study of Alec while he's with Magnus.

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He walks right up to the edge of the bridge and looks down at the water below. It’s still early in the morning, the sun not quite up and the sky not quite bright, and no one notices him. That’s ok. They don’t need to notice him yet. He hasn’t quite decided what he’ll do, but once they notice him everything becomes more real. Right now he just needs a few moments of the in-between.

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Or, after being turned into Valentine and then back again, Magnus doesn't feel right. Those memories dredged up by the agony rune still sit with him and he hasn't dealt with any of it, instead choosing to hide from how he feels. It's self-destructive, he knows, and eventually all of those things he's not dealing with drive him to the Brooklyn Bridge. And then Alec is there, pulling him back, taking care of him, and he realizes they have a lot they need to talk about.

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That bitch turned me into a fucking cat, he thinks angrily. He remembers Dot and powder and then everything going black (and not in the good way). He whines again.

“Ah, I see someone’s finally awake.”

Magnus looks up as Dot strolls into his line of vision. “Good morning, sleepy pants. Did you have a nice catnap?”

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Or, Dot turns Magnus into a cat in order for him to deal with the emotional abuse Camille's been putting him through for a century. She sends him to live at the Institute to help Clary deal with her own love life and, while he's there, Magnus ends up falling for the ridiculously attractive Alec Lightwood. Only problem is that Magnus is a cat and will be stuck as a cat until Clary can find love.

Its the slow burn Malec and Clizzy fic that has been on my mind for a year. Now complete!

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On the drive to town Magnus realizes two very important things. The first is that he’s going to need to keep Alec around for a while because this is going to take a lot longer than he expected. And the second is that, if he’s not extremely careful, he could find himself falling headlong in love with Alec.

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Or, after Magnus begins renovations on his house he learns he's over his head and needs to call a handyman for help. It just so happens that handyman sticks around longer than either of them expected. The pining, getting-together construction AU no one asked for but has been bugging me since the summer.

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“Mommy?”“Yes, baby?”“I think I know who I’m going to marry.” The little indented frown had disappeared from between Stiles’ brows, instead a wide smile lit up his face.“Well then, you’d better introduce us to this girl with the pretty hair,” Claudia said, ruffling Stiles' short hair.“Don’t be silly, Mommy. I’m not going to marry her,” Stiles replied.

The 5 times Stiles asked Derek to marry him, and the 1 time Derek asked Stiles.

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Derek hesitates to respond, trying to decide on the most concise way to tell the story without his disgust bleeding through. Marie beats him to it.

“After the Argents’ attack, we were the only pack who would give them shelter. As thanks, it was agreed my daughter would marry a member of the Hale pack when she came of age.”

“But Derek is no longer an option because a marriage pact can’t interfere with a pack’s hierarchy,” Lydia fills in, disbelief dripping from every word. “And now every other member of the pack is mated, you’ve finally come calling to sink your claws into Stiles.”

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When Derek and Stiles stumbled into a friends with benefits relationship purely by accident, they weren’t expecting it would one day save their asses when a threat from Derek’s past comes knocking. All they need to do is pretend to really be in love to avoid an arranged marriage agreed to years ago with a pact of blood. Considering they hadn’t bothered setting up boundaries when the ‘benefits’ first started, it’s no surprise that the lines begin to blur and Derek’s eyes are eventually opened to a truth he hadn’t been ready to face.